Do You Remove the Spacers After Installing Laminate Flooring?

When you remove the spacers after installing laminate floor is actually a really important part of the process. Find out if you remove the spaces after installing laminate floor with help from a Foreman for Lighty Contractors in this free video clip.

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Good day, everyone. I'm Joshua Clement with Lighty Contractors, and today I'm going to talk to you about if you actually remove the spacers after you're done installing laminate floor. Now this is actually a really important part. You absolutely have to remove those spacers. If you don't your floor is actually going to warp up on your joints from people walking on it and the expansion and contraction with the temperature change. Here we have our spacers and if you leave these spacers it's not only going to effect the floor but it's also going to effect when you put your trim over top of it. Because your spacers are actually going to be pushing it away from the wall right about a 1/2 inch. So they're very simple, just take them up. You want to make sure that when you're installing a floor you don't push them up real tight to these. You kind of want to leave it loose as a floating floor. You don't want to screw it down, nail it down. Everything needs to be floating across there. That is the actual design of these floors. Something you want to consider before you even start laying your floor is what you're going to use as spacers. One thing is you want to make sure all your spacers are the same size. I actually like to go ahead and use a shim for that because all these door shims are right about the same size. They aren't going to vary a whole lot. If you want to you can actually take your flooring, turn it on its side and push it up against the wall and use these as spacers. What I like about this is when you get close to the end all you do is pull these out from the other side and you can go and install it on the other end. I'm Joshua Clement with Lighty Contractors, I thank you all for watching and good luck with this project.